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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)
My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
Kenyans returning Bibles in crates to the British colonial office in an East German cartoon from 1953, with the caption, “Here, we are giving you your Bibles back, now give us our land back.”
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“Back to school” (September 1, 2016) – a caricature published in the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Ne’eman, comparing a student of the state-secular education system to a student of the Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) religious education system.
Manute Bol, the tallest man in the NBA, defending the hoop in the college, 1980s.
“Nobody is born gay” USA, 2014
Testing the guns on a North American B-25 Mitchell
«Change Russia, start with Moscow» a poster calling for voting for Alexei Navalny in the Moscow mayoral election, 2013.
Young future Russian oppositionist Alexey Navalny, 2000 .
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